Does our heart and circulatory #health necessarily decline with age? Not if we live like the #Tsimane

'Horus Group scientists who had found heart disease in mummies would join with the Tsimane Project and analyse CT scans of the hearts of the Tsimane, an Indigenous tribe of about 17,000 people living in the lowland Bolivian jungle. They would find almost no heart disease. What’s more, continuing research with the Tsimane shows rates of dementia among the lowest ever observed, and they have only minimal cognitive impairment with ageing.'

#anthropology #amazon #ageing #Bolivia #foragerfarmers

https://aeon.co/essays/what-amazonian-lives-tell-us-about-heart-health-and-longevity

An evening of grief once turned into my most liberating New Year’s Eve | Shanti Nelson https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/new-year-eve #Lifeandstyle #Family #Ageing #USnews

This phenomena is what we used to call #ageing and no one thought anything if it, but nowadays it seems to surprise the #tabloid #media all the time. "He looks unrecognisable." "You won't recognise her after 20 years." The #redtops now think the #laws of #nature are a surprise to us.